As a Canadian, I have no clue why North Americans clown on the British, is it just cause of that war for independence or something? Edit: If you hate the British or the French for no reason other than " They're British/French" then that is blatantly racist
Bruh this is watchable and there’s nothing creepy about it lol. The animation was a bit whacky obviously, it was the early 2000s. The only “creep factor” you all get out of this is the fact that the rest of the episodes are lost lol.
@@mouthwaterinI believe it’s because of how slow the animation is compared to the quickness of the dialogue, as well as the unorthodox character design and voices Also they’re British
@@scorpioengine4797 A place where you can sit down in front of a PC and surf the net for a fee. They're also known as cybercafes or, in some places, computer shops.
@@scorpioengine4797Cafés that had computers built into them, so that people back in the early 2000’s could access the internet if they couldn’t afford their own computer. As far as I know they were pretty popular for the time, but I was only an infant back then lol.
Idk why, but you can always tell when something is made in the 2000's. The vibes are written all over it. I know it tells us it's from the 2000's but ut definitely embodies it's time period.
i need a reboot of this, like an EXACT reboot of this in the same artstyle, humor, and overall feel. it's literally so good, i would binge this season for season
I’m thinking of making a reboot/parody series of this. It would be more chaotic than what we currently have, there will probably be a lot of “haha because bri’ish” jokes in there as well.
It’s really amazing how this is probably the first television lost media I’ve researched where the PILOT (which is usually the thing in TV that’s hardest to find) got found FIRST. I think that speaks volumes on how hard it is to find much footage on this show. Thankfully going back to the lost media wiki article for this show I don’t think all of the episodes will be lost for long. Someone got a hand on a tape that they claim has footage of Audrey and Friends like a full episode or something, but they need to find a working VCR that can transport the video onto a computer file so chances are we won’t have the series fully lost for long.
Many thanks to @MakaraFurusawa for alerting me to this thread and hopefully I can add some clarity for anyone who cares. Firstly, the above video is NOT AN EPISODE from the series AUDREY & FRIENDS. However, it is a one-off initial pilot for the show that was broadcast on Channel 5 on Boxing Day 2000. The actual series (26 episodes) ran from August 2002 to February 2003. The above pilot wasn't part of the series and said series differs from it in a number of ways (as you would expect given 18 months of changing/refining, revised ambitions in both directions and economies of scale): 1. Animation on the series was a fair bit better (less scary teeth for example!) albeit still restricted both by its age and the fact that C5 paid 20-25% of what BBC/ITV paid for kids' animation at the time. This show was made entirely for that C5 budget and said budget (as well as its age) should be recognised as a factor re the final product. 2. There was a bigger voice cast on the series and none of the voice artists from the pilot were used on the series for various reasons. Primarily a decision was made to go with naturally younger sounding voices. Youthful Elly Fairman (ex-Hollyoaks) replaced a pitched-up Nicola Stapleton as Audrey and genuine (awesome) children voiced Meena and Stan. 3. Mona was renamed as Meena (by pure chance we later learned this was the nickname of the girl cast to voice her) and the roles of the core three were changed a bit. Audrey was the boring/grounded one as the narrator/lynchpin on most shows is. Meena was the self-obsessed, selfish, vain slang-spouting one (an early incarnation of an Instagram/TikToker). Stan was the geeky, smart, tomboyish and (imho) best one. 4. Most notably the tone changed hugely for the series. Partly because of the writing. It was clear from the outset that the animation itself couldn't be produced to the original budget, so the three producers wrote the whole series for free and used the script budget to pay for extra animator weeks. This meant the show reflected their sensibilities (comedy, sarcasm, wordplay) rather than the children's drama/soap sensibilities of the pilot which was written by proper posh writers! Audrey was primarily aimed at a 7-11 year old female skewing audience and played out at one episode per week on C5's older kids strand Shake. Ratings weren't great in the UK but it seemingly picked up a minor cult following in New Zealand where it was repeated for several years on PrimeTV. It probably wouldn't have been recommissioned for a second series, but that ceased to be an issue anyway as C5 then scrapped Shake to solely concentrate their kids' output towards preschool (ages 0-6) on the Milkshake brand. Impossible TV would go on to make several preschool series for C5 (eg MechaNick, BirdBath, The Beeps, Castle Farm, Angels of Jarm, Gaspard & Lisa) over the next decade before Impossible closed in 2013. [Source for all of the above: Myself. I worked for Impossible TV for its entire 16 year existence. On Audrey I was one of the producers, hired all the voice artists, edited all the sound and wrote 19 of the 26 episodes (script editing the others). Hopefully the above info is handy for one or two folks and I apologise for any childhood trauma/nightmares I may have caused you. Cheers, Adam Peters x]
7:18 The "PLEASE, we are talking real life here. Not HarryPotter's ville." is my favorite line, I love this. I need more episodes (Actually, the real, actual episodes, not just the pilot!) of this thing, honestly. I'd really like it, sounds like it was made for teens like me.
This definitely would’ve been something I binged on Amazon Prime as a kid tbh, it kind of sucks that this is the only episode of this show available at the moment :(
@@bloonie "Firstly, the above video is NOT AN EPISODE from the series AUDREY & FRIENDS. However, it is a one-off initial pilot for the show that was broadcast on Channel 5 on Boxing Day 2000." grabbed from the pinned comment.
this definitely has that posh-middle-aged writer's touch where most of the dialogue is absolutely terrible, save for a few really good one-liners thrown in there at random. very 'how do you do fellow kids?'. i like it. hope the rest gets found soon!
That artstyle looks like my art style if it LITERALLY comes to life and I’m scared shitless. ok jokes aside, it’s not that scary obviously. this pilot so far was so savage that I’m into it. better than I expected. Can’t wait for the whole series to be found someday.
@@escapefr0mslender never did i think i'd meet someone that liked the writing in this show and disliked PPTA's animation. the writing is so violently british that any little bit of humor it had just makes me annoyed
@@escapefr0mslenderthere is absolutely no way you said PingPong has bad animation. You could say you hate the stylistic choice of the show but the animation is fluid and incredibly creative.
Despite what people say about the art style and animation I find everything to be kinda, charming? It’s definitely an animation style that’s different compared to nowadays which I appreciate also mixed in with some interesting slice of life humor.
It needs to be found, theres a fandom abt this show and like specified it's an early pilot and the actual cartoon is less creepy bc a lot of change was done, if you look at the gumball pilot you would say the same thing, it's rlly different from the actual cartoon@@grindcoregorenoisegoregrin7290
if this was an actual show that aired, i would've loved this as a kid. especially since i grew up exposed to western media, specifically british cartoons (charlie and lola.. stuff like that, y'know?) hell, even watching this now, it genuinely feels like i'm just a little kid watching this on the tv. insane amount of nostalgia, i'm not even gonna lie.
You know, with the show having a small fanbase on Tiktok, and another tape containing the show was found by PTV for old tv times, I still have hope for the show!😆
